Category: Healthcare Finance News

The pill is for adults who are at risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare employment has dropped by 524,000 jobs.

Average annual healthcare spending for people with employer-sponsored insurance rose 2.9% to $6,001 per person in 2019, according to the Health Care Cost Institute’s annual Health Care Cost and Utilization Report. 

As the delta variant pushes COVID-19 caseloads to all-time highs, hospitals and health systems across the country are paying $24 billion more per year for qualified clinical labor than they did pre-pandemic, according to a new PINC AI analysis from Pre…

By selling these businesses in seven countries Cigna plans to focus on its health services businesses. 
 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the Medicare Advantage and Part D Star Ratings for 2022.

Humana has announced it will debut a new Medicare Advantage PPO plan in 37 rural counties in North Carolina, responding to market demand in the eastern part of the state.
The new Medicare option will be available during this year’s Medicare Advantage a…

Optum and SSM Health, a Catholic, not-for-profit health system in the Midwest, are partnering across certain functions, including digital transformation, inpatient care and revenue cycle management.
Certain SSM Health revenue cycle staff and hospital c…

The request for EUA will be evaluated during an upcoming Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting on October 26. 
 

Backus Hospital, a Hartford Healthcare facility based in Norwich, Connecticut, has settled with the federal government over allegations that it discriminated against a deaf patient, according to the U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Health …